Chapter 747 Pride

Chapter 747 Pride

Arad stood in the forest beside Aella beneath a tree as the students surrounded Lucia and Aella's class teacher, a tall half-elf with a long mustache and a longbow on his back.

"A joined class... I can't believe they brought you here." Aella smiled as she looked at Arad.

"We're here to catch demon spiders. Did he say what you were going to do?"

"Said we'll help your class find and capture the demon spiders by looking for the spider lily, a black flower that the spiders love to eat."

^I'm worried... I can feel the spiders from here, every one of them, but something is off. They are too strong. I can beat them, and so is Aella and everyone else, but I don't feel that Mira would be safe here.^ He looked toward Lucia, "Teacher, you sure those spiders aren't too strong for us?"

Aella's teacher laughed. "Don't tell me you're scared of spiders, big guy."

Lucia stared at Arad with a serious face, then looked back at Aella's teacher. His name was Sylvany. "We should check the spiders... I don't feel right if Aron is concerned." She had started to feel that Arad's words weren't something to be ignored.

Sylvany shook his head with a smile. "I checked them yesterday. They are a bit bigger as they ate a lot in the past weak, but that should make them a bit slower in exchange for them having a bit more durability."

"So..." Lucia stared at him. "The students can dodge them better. But will also need some extra strikes to capture or take them down."

"Exactly, there is nothing to be afraid of, Aron." Sylvany stared at Arad with a smile.

Lucia turned toward the student, "Make teams out of four, three from our class and one from teacher Sylvany's class, and get ready."

There were more than double the students in Arad's class than in Aella's class, almost triple. And that is for one reason. Potion-making is a lucrative business if you can secure supplies, and it only requires a bit of mana and knowledge, which is accessible to anyone through effort.

Aella grouped with Arad, Matilda, and Selina. The four of them started walking through the forest, searching for the demon spiders.

"Aron..." Aella looked at Arad with a smile, "Did you know? Demon spiders were normal spiders until they ate the black spider lily and mutated into demonic beings. We saw one of their eggs hatch, and it was a normal black spider."

"You learned that?"

"We're a herbalist class." She smiled. "The flowers have a natural magic in them that slowly decays into demonic magic. It's too weak to affect humanoids, but enough for spiders."

"A poor choice of diet." Arad looked around. "Would the flowers transform a human if ingested in large quantities?"

"No one tried." Aella replied.

"People did." Selina said as she poked her head from behind Matilda. "But it was toxic, most subjects died. So the research stopped."

Arad turned toward Aella, "You could've sniped it off."

She stared at him. "What are you talking about? I can't fire that fast." It was then that Arad finally realized. Aella didn't intend to save Matilda, she had the speed but was playing into her role well. ^We've decided not to use our powers here for a reason...^ He was the only one still using bits of his power when he needed it.

^[The teachers should have an antidote for the spider's poison. She wouldn't die.]^

^It's not about dying.^ Arad turned around and walked toward Matilda. "Make sure to watch your back."

"I'll remember that." Matilda replied and Aella stared at her with a suspicious glare. Tiger beastmen are supposed to be solitary hunters, watching their back should be natural, but from what she saw from Matilda now, she's pretty bad.

"Matilda, can you really hunt?" Aella approached her.

"I can! Don't mock me!" Matilda growled, hearing those words triggered her badly. It was clear to Aella in a second. Matilda can't hunt, and that's probably the reason she left her tribe, and came to an alchemist class of all things.

Selina stared between the two of them, sensing the tension as it rose. Aella didn't want someone to pretend to be strong around Arad while not being able to fight, false claims can lead to a nasty death.

"I'm not mocking you." Aella puts her bow away, signaling to Matilda that she doesn't want to start a fight. Seeing that, Matilda pulled her claws back into her hand, took a deep breath, and glared at Aella. "What do you mean then?"

"We're hunting as a team. If I don't know what you're capable of, I can't support you. If I knew you can't watch your own back, I would've watched it for you." Aella turned toward Selina, and the girl rushed to hide behind Matilda.

"Matilda, you are our tank and damage dealer. I'm the rear support and the sniper. Selina here is our spell support and blaster. We are a team, keep that in mind." She crossed her arms.

"And what is he?" Matilda turned toward Arad.

"He can play any role." Aella replied, "I'm his wife and I can tell you one thing I'm confident in. He's our safe net, and you saw it." She pointed at the dead spider.

Matilda's eyes sparkled, "I see! He's the lion!"

"The what?" Aella stared at her, confused.

"I'm a tiger, so I don't know much. But I heard that the male lion beastmen are far stronger than females and they usually form a large pride. The females hunt while he sleeps all day, but he'll always take down the biggest prey that they can't face." She turned toward Arad, "That's why he has a lot of wives, he's a lion. You're a part of his pride."

"How did you come to that conclusion?" Aella sighed deeply.

Matilda stared at Selina, "Now we're a part of his pride. So listen to him,"

"HEEEEEEEEEE!" Selina cried.The source of this content no/v(el)bi((n))